Spatial structure of eukaryotic ultraplankton community in the northern South China Sea

Jiang, Zhao-Yu; Wang, You‐Shao; Sun, Fu-Lin

doi:10.2478/s11756-014-0361-0

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“…Previous studies have been done on prokaryotes and viruses, including their biodiversity distribution and community response to environmental factors in the Pearl River Estuary (PRE) and the SCS [ 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 ]. In terms of protists, several pioneering studies have shown that protists have high diversity in the PRE [ 52 , 53 , 54 ] and the northern/central SCS [ 24 , 55 , 56 ], and protistan communities are constrained by complex environmental factors [ 57 , 58 , 59 ]. However, the composition and assembly processes of the active protistan assemblages along the PRE to the SCS basin transect and the driving factors of the total and abundant/rare taxa need further exploration.…”

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Biogeographical Distribution and Community Assembly of Active Protistan Assemblages along an Estuary to a Basin Transect of the Northern South China Sea

Wang

et al. 2021

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Marine protists are essential for globally critical biological processes, including the biogeochemical cycles of matter and energy. However, compared with their prokaryotic counterpart, it remains largely unclear how environmental factors determine the diversity and distribution of the active protistan communities on the regional scale. In the present study, the biodiversity, community composition, and potential drivers of the total, abundant, and rare protistan groups were studied using high throughput sequencing on the V9 hyper-variable regions of the small subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU rRNA) along an estuary to basin transect in the northern South China Sea. Overall, Bacillariophyta and Cercozoa were abundant in the surface water; heterotrophic protists including Spirotrichea and marine stramenopiles 3 (MAST-3) were more abundant in the subsurface waters near the heavily urbanized Pearl River estuary; Chlorophyta and Pelagophyceae were abundant at the deep chlorophyll maximum depth, while Hacrobia, Radiolaria, and Excavata were the abundant groups in the deep water. Salinity, followed by water depth, temperature, and other biological factors, were the primary factors controlling the distinct vertical and horizontal distribution of the total and abundant protists. Rare taxa were driven by water depth, followed by temperature, salinity, and the concentrations of PO43−. The active protistan communities were mainly driven by dispersal limitation, followed by drift and other ecological processes.

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Biogeographical Distribution and Community Assembly of Active Protistan Assemblages along an Estuary to a Basin Transect of the Northern South China Sea

Wang

et al. 2021

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Gametogenesis and reproductive traits of the cold-seep mussel Gigantidas platifrons in the South China Sea

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Spatial variation of phytoplankton community structure in Daya Bay, China

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Daya Bay is one of the largest and most important gulfs in the southern coast of China, in the northern part of the South China Sea. The phylogenetic diversity and spatial distribution of phytoplankton from the Daya Bay surface water and the relationship with the in situ water environment were investigated by the clone library of the large subunit of ribulose-1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase (rbcL) gene. The dominant species of phytoplankton were diatoms and eustigmatophytes, which accounted for 81.9 % of all the clones of the rbcL genes. Prymnesiophytes were widely spread and wide varieties lived in Daya Bay, whereas the quantity was limited. The community structure of phytoplankton was shaped by pH and salinity and the concentration of silicate, phosphorus and nitrite. The phytoplankton biomass was significantly positively affected by phosphorus and nitrite but negatively by salinity and pH. Therefore, the phytoplankton distribution and biomass from Daya Bay were doubly affected by anthropic activities and natural factors.

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Spatial structure of eukaryotic ultraplankton community in the northern South China Sea

Cited by 7 publications

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Biogeographical Distribution and Community Assembly of Active Protistan Assemblages along an Estuary to a Basin Transect of the Northern South China Sea

Biogeographical Distribution and Community Assembly of Active Protistan Assemblages along an Estuary to a Basin Transect of the Northern South China Sea

Gametogenesis and reproductive traits of the cold-seep mussel Gigantidas platifrons in the South China Sea

Spatial variation of phytoplankton community structure in Daya Bay, China

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